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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

Early '27 in-out vibes | Huge visit weekend shaping up

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's time to really shift our focus. The '26 talent acquisition phase is complete. Transfers and recruits are set.

So ... now what?

We are on to '27! Sure, we have to wait for the portal to open again but recruiting is full steam ahead.

Garrick Thomas is here to let you know who Ohio State is focused on that is likely to commit ... and who is not.

Mark Porter is here to offer wisdom as well dive deep on visitors, targets and expectations overall for the class.

Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Good morning Bucknutters.

0:29.2

It is Tuesday, February 17th, 2026.

0:32.8

I am Dan Rubin.

0:33.8

This is the Bucknoughts morning 5 in change.

0:36.3

I apologize to you for coming a little bit late.

0:39.3

You can look at me and guess my age and figure technical difficulties.

0:43.7

You are on point.

0:45.5

When this thing changes up on me and I got to like flex on the fly and push new buttons,

0:51.6

it's always caused for delay and that is completely my fault.

0:54.8

These guys are here with bells on.

0:57.0

Garrick Hodge, Mark Porter, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

1:00.3

As we shift away from real football, I guess, games, and we are shifting to total roster management and recruiting,

1:09.2

if you go to 24-7 sports now and click on recruiting,

1:14.1

the 2027 class will come up. The 2026 class is considered to be behind us now,

1:21.3

theoretically. So we are shifted to 27. You need to get your P's and Q's going. So what we're

1:27.3

going to do today is not begin because we've talked a lot about 27 guys,

1:33.0

but Garrett's going to kind of give you.

1:34.6

You get a chat earlier this week, a VIP chat, which is, of course, can't miss content

1:39.0

and your way to really drill down on stuff you're interested in.

1:43.1

We're going to talk about like the three guys we think Ohio State is really confident

1:48.0

in right now and three guys that we think maybe more long shots.

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